Life is really strange. Sometimes you think you understand it, that you’ve finally got the hang of things and it just throws you a curve ball. I’ve gotten a lot of those just in the past few years. The same goes for a lot of other people I know.
I’m in a weird position right now. There’s been some family drama going on. I feel like I’m in a sitcom. Week after week the family plods along doing the same ol’ …

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My roommate has a subscription to National Geographic. When I was younger my father got a subscription to it, but I would only look at the pictures. Now I actually read the articles. One article in particular from the December 2009 issue struck my interest.
It’s an article about a man who went and lived with the bush people known as the Hadza for two weeks. His portrait of them is of a content and happily ignorant people. They’re unsentimental and …

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This is an email interview conducted with Andrew, the creator of Lewis’s Life. I wrote about it a week or so ago. You should definitely go check it out if you haven’t already.
What inspired you to make Lewis’s Life? Did you always have an idea of what direction you would go or was it more of a learning process in terms of arriving at your current vision?
Honestly, I just wanted a comic to play around with (I made this abundantly …

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Empty suits on a train.
White dress nestled among them,
Hanging by fleshy appendage rather than wire.
Eye grabs eye for short moment,
Red lips purse into an upward corner.
White teeth flash and thick brow raises in response.
Man forms in favored suit.
Newly created mind floats through possibilities;
Skin brushes against skin,
Soft word spoken into flattered ear,
Trip taken on road without destination,
Arm embraces waist beneath starry sky.
Foot steps forward confidently then hesitates.
Coy smile disappears inside disappointed frown.
Metal screeches against metal with high pitched squeal.
Dress floats out …

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This past year has been an interesting one as far as how my impressions of different people have evolved. I have a problem with seeing things in people that aren’t really there.
It’s so hard to separate your quick snap judgments of people from reality. So many times I’m interacting with a caricature and not the real person. It makes things easier when you do that, because you don’t have to invest the mental energy to truly evaluate them and try to see them realistically.
This …

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This past week I discovered an awesome little comic called Lewis’s Life. It’s quite different from anything else out there that I’ve stumbled upon, which makes it really hard to narrow down what exactly makes the comic so special. I’m going to try anyway.
First of all, the art can be pretty delightful. It reminds me of my days in middle school where spirals were primarily doodling devices and secondarily note containers. I’ve found myself doodling more in class since I started reading the …

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So much of what I feel has no basis in the real world. It’s all in my head. Rarely are the things I fear real. Oftentimes the things I should fear, I am completely unaware of. Simple things like how much sleep I’ve gotten will shadow my perception of how other people feel. If I’m feeling chipper, then I feel like other people want to be around me. If I’m feeling like crap, I feel like people don’t really want …

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Lately I’ve been thinking about all the time I spend doing things that just waste time. I waste so much time doing activities and spending time with people that don’t give me any real satisfaction.
Over the break I was at a friend’s apartment. I had an ok time, but at one point in the evening I realized that I really didn’t enjoy being with those people. We weren’t interested in the same things in life. They had different priorities and …

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I was talking to an old friend recently. She was in love with this boy. Hearing her talk about him, he seemed like a cool guy. One of those people you’d like to be friends with. She talked about how he said all these things that at the time she didn’t understand and could only appreciate later.
She was outside with him.
The sky was beautiful. It was the type of sky that only comes around every once in a while. When …

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Citizen Kane is supposedly the greatest film ever made. More people are probably aware of this fact than have actually sat down to watch it. My dad is one of those people who likes to watch a good movie. Mention No Country for Old Men or The Straight Story and he’ll start chatting excitedly about why he loves those films. He decided to sit down and watch Citizen Kane and it didn’t really do anything for him. Some might say …

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